While an emergency bore has provided some relief, water is being trucked in from neighbouring towns on a daily basis.

To help raise spirits, a volunteer army have this week descended on the rural hamlet, eager to spread some good will.

The Rural Aid initiative has gathered more than 70 people from around the country to complete odd jobs around the town, in local schools and on surrounding farms, that have fallen by the wayside during the drought.

The organisation's general manager, Wayne Thomson, said Murrurundi residents had been doing it tough for a long time.

"When I came here, I just wanted to understand what it's like to be living in a rural community and I wanted to understand better how the drought is affecting our communities rurally.

"Living in Sydney, we don't really know the impact of how bad the drought is," she said.

"We think that it's raining again, so it must be alright everywhere around the state.

"It wasn't until I came to Murrurundi and we had our first introductory talk that they told us, 'Don't be deceived by the greenery you're seeing around, the drought is much bigger and the impact is much greater than what we see'.

"It's things like this that only when you step out of our cities that we learn for ourselves."

In contrast, the reality of living through drought is something Victorian volunteer, Krystal Bourke, is all too familiar with.